Architects as Artists
V&A Museum: Architecture, Room 128a
Sat 15 November 2014 – Sun 29 March 2015
A House for Essex by FAT Architecture and Grayson Perry. Image: Ordinary Architecture Ltd
Egyptian temple Antony in Egypt by William Walcot, 1928. Image: RIBA
Designs for Truro Cathedral, 1878, by William Burges. Image: Victoria and Albert Museum
Re-Forestation of the Thames Estuary, 2010, by Tom Noonan. Image: Victoria and Albert Museum
This display examines how making art has contributed to architects’ practice, and how architects’ training has informed their art, from the Renaissance to the modern day. Drawing on the collections of the V&A Museum and RIBA, the collection of around 50 works will include a pair of digital renderings for ‘A House for Essex’, a project between FAT Architecture and the artist Grayson Perry, and Tom Noonan’s recent depiction of the re-forestation of the Thames Estuary. These images will sit alongside designs for an artist’s house by E.W. Godwin, a drawing by Raphael of the Pantheon in Rome and a lithograph by Cyril Power depicting the staircase of Russell Square tube station. For more information visit the V&A Museum website.
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